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50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp

… Image 50 Years of the Centennial Willa Cather Stamp The process—and … of Willa Cather’s birth; the goal was to have the first stamps offered for sale in Red Cloud on December 7, … Day of Issue stamps. Ten Red Cloud organizations and almost fifty volunteers from eleven Nebraska towns helped the …
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Guided Seasonal Tour

… Black Hawk Willa Cather’s My Ántonia was among the fifty titles selected by the National Endowment for the Arts … drawn readers into this classic novel for more than 100 years.   As part of our NEA Big Read programming, guests are … W. 3rd Street This is the site where Anna Sadilek Pavelka’s first child was baptized and where Anna was married. This …
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Cather Sesquicentennial

… Image Cather Sesquicentennial Celebrating 150 Years We are commemorating acclaimed novelist Willa Cather’s … Collection in the U.S. Capitol on June 7. Cather is the first Pulitzer Prize-winner and the twelfth woman … sixteen-month restoration —its first in more than fifty years. This National Historic Landmark was Cather’s …
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Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season!

… Visit Red Cloud This Holiday & Winter Season! Explore • Learn • Shop • Stay "I'm not exaggerating, Carrie, when I … grant funding, we have traveling exhibits, programs, and educational resources available through June 30, 2025. Participate in …
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NEA Big Read: My Ántonia

… by the difficulties and the beauties of the world they must contend with. It is also true, though, that we read … remains a revelation.”  — Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley About My Ántonia When critic Randolph Bourne heralded  My … Adolph Hitler’s bathtub at the close of World War II. When Mildred Bennett began work on the Willa Cather Pioneer …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Dedication & Ribbon-Cutting

… status as a literary pilgrimage destination for more than fifty years. Just six months after the house reopened on Willa … with a sloping ceiling, like my 'rose-bower' in our old first home. Do you remember?"   —Cather in a 1945 letter to …
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Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about historic site tour options. After an extensive … numerous Cather-related historic properties, expansion of educational programming and exhibits, development of visitor … help the National Willa Cather Center provide classroom resources for teachers, preserve historic sites associated …
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The Potter Family

… Street business district. Later J.Q. and Jacob opened the first grist mill west of Beatrice after they constructed, … War was on now and my father volunteered and spent three years in the service until the close of the war. He was … Orleans; N. F. Potter, Alma; twenty-six grandchildren, fifty great grandchildren.” (By Attorney Jas. S. Gilham) …
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Willa Cather Biography

… Willa Cather Biography A Great American Writer "Miss Cather … has been the new and ready availability of Cather’s own letters to researchers. These letters are held in archives … precluded by a proviso in Cather’s will. But The Selected Letters of Willa Cather (2013), edited by Andrew …
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Willa Cather Childhood Home Restoration Underway

… 2023   Make a Gift to Benefit Ongoing Preservation Efforts! Donate Now The Willa Cather Childhood Home is a national …
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